HTTP Compression (Gzip) is an absolute must.
Web optimisation of all images down to 72-96dpi - ChrisG will correct me
here if I'm way off - but it's that sort of level.
By far the thing that works best that I've come across is using XHTML/HTML
as much as possible which is then heavily cached.
Dynamic and round-trip stuff is expensive so where the site is changing less
frequently move to HTML publishing. A good rule is send as little as
possible as infrequently as possible. This means googling for smart ways to
cut down the size of the HTML published such as remapping character entities
to their smallest forms - desperate perhaps but you get the feel for it I'm
sure.
Burstable bandwidth, caching-with-tin (simply put using a cluster of pcs
with memory as a disk), redundancy and load balancing are also worth the
effort if the budget affords.
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Patrick Butler Monterde
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Subject: [Rainbowportal-devel] Inproving Image Load times performance.
Hi guys,
I am being confronted with this problem. Our portal
http://www.navylifepnw.com/ is quite rich in images, and dynamic content. We
are having problems with the images not loading as quick as we would like.
We had to remove a couple flash animations because of this, but we are still
having issues. I lookded at the IIS 6.0 compresing capabilities and ISS
Caching. I know some software products what will help with both the caching
and metatags
I wanted to know what is your experience on this area and if you have any
suggestions
thanks,
Patrick Butler Monterde
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Hi guys,
I am being confronted with this problem. Our portal
http://www.navylifepnw.com/ is quite rich in images, and dynamic content. We
are having problems with the images not loading as quick as we would like.
We had to remove a couple flash animations because of this, but we are still
having issues. I lookded at the IIS 6.0 compresing capabilities and ISS
Caching. I know some software products what will help with both the caching
and metatags
I wanted to know what is your experience on this area and if you have any
suggestions
thanks,
Patrick Butler Monterde